Michael Talbot

Towards the end of his long life the organist Christian Michael Wolff (1707-1789), resident in the Baltic port of Stettin (today, Szczecin in Poland), achieved a degree of fame as a composer through t...

Towards the end of his long life the organist Christian Michael Wolff (1707-1789), resident in the Baltic port of Stettin (today, Szczecin in Poland), achieved a degree of fame as a composer through t...

Wolff's Concerto in G major for Flute, Strings and Basso Continuo encloses a wistful Largo in E minor between a stately Moderato and a sprightly, dance-like Allegretto. The solo instrument is treated...

Stanley Sadies 1963 geäußerte Meinung, dass die beiden der zwölf Triosonaten von Frederick Ernest Fisher (1711/12–1760), die zu gleichen Teilen auf Op. 1 (ca. 1751) und Op. 2 (ca. 1761) aufgeteilt war...

Stanley Sadies 1963 geäußerte Meinung, dass die beiden der zwölf Triosonaten von Frederick Ernest Fisher (1711/12–1760), die zu gleichen Teilen auf Op. 1 (ca. 1751) und Op. 2 (ca. 1761) aufgeteilt war...

Stanley Sadies 1963 geäußerte Meinung, dass die beiden der zwölf Triosonaten von Frederick Ernest Fisher (1711/12–1760), die zu gleichen Teilen auf Op. 1 (ca. 1751) und Op. 2 (ca. 1761) aufgeteilt war...

Gewöhnliche Violinsonaten bildeten das Rückgrat der Serie von zehn Sammlungen, die der in Süditalien geborene, aber seit 1703 dauerhaft in Paris lebende italienische Geiger Michel Mascitti (1663/4–176...

Quentins Triosonaten beeindrucken durch ihre Beherrschung aller Elemente der musikalischen Komposition, insbesondere des Kontrapunkts (Fugen sind eine seiner Spezialitäten). Sie mischen auf attraktive...

Von den sechs im Manuskript überlieferten Konzerten Cervettos sind fünf für Cello, aber eines, das erst vor kurzem ans Licht kam, ist für Flöte und stellt eine geschickte Bearbeitung einer seiner eige...

Gegen Ende seines langen Lebens erlangte der in der Ostseehafenstadt Stettin (heute Szczecin in Polen) ansässige Organist Christian Michael Wolff (1707-1789) eine gewisse Berühmtheit als Komponist dur...

It is not often that previously unknown instrumental compositions by Albinoni (1671-1751) turn up, but Michael Talbot recently found two violin sonatas - one from the very start of his career and the...

Michele Mascitti (1663/4-1760), was a Neapolitan violinist who settled in Paris in 1704. This substantial trio sonata, the only one of its type that he published (and perhaps wrote) was included in hi...

The 'divertissement' Psiché, a ten-movement suite for violin and basso continuo by Michele Mascitti (1663/4-1760), the Neapolitan violinist who did more than anyone else to acclimatize the Italian son...

1772 brachte John Addison in Edinburgh einen Band heraus, der sechs Duette in Form von drei- oder viersätzigen Sonaten für zwei unbegleitete Violinen enthielt, seine einzigen Werke, die erhalten gebli...

They include this trio sonata written specifically for two oboes and bass. The extent to which wind instruments were cultivated in Italy in the early eighteenth century is today often not appreciated,...

Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709) is today best known for his concertos for strings, in which genre he was a pioneer, and for his music with solo trumpet. In his own day, however, he was equally productive...

Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709) was the leading composer of instrumental music in a flourishing school of composers active in Bologna in the second half of the seventeenth century and the opening decades...

Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709) was the leading composer of instrumental music in a flourishing school of composers active in Bologna in the second half of the seventeenth century and the opening decades...

The six trio sonatas published alongside eight violin sonatas in his Op. 4 are works in four or five movements that felicitously mix the ‘church' and ‘chamber' styles in various configurations. This i...

In Sonata 3 in F major the opening Largo is styled as a 'Siciliana', an especially common type of movement in the flute repertory on account of the instrument's pastoral associations. The following Sp...